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THINGS YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW WITHOUT THE MOVIE INDUSTRY

1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the
price range of most people--whether they are employed or not.
2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to
cut. You will always choose the right one.
4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the
communications system of any invading alien society.
5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight
involving martial arts -- your enemies will wait patiently to
attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked
out their predecessors.
6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your
bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world
expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
8. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down
three days before their retirement.
9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their
archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley
systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will
allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
10. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to
visit a strip club at least once.
11. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach up to
the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying
beside her.
12. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French
bread.
13. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is
someone in the control tower to talk you down.
14. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off--even while scuba
diving.
15. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you
make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart
back home.
16. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian
officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German
or Russian accent will do. (It used to be an English accent for the Germans).
17. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
18. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
19. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown
through it before long.
20. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any
strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
21. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will
always say: Enter Password Now.
22. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is
necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few
moments.
23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large
red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
24. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended
from duty.
25. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you
meet will know all the steps.
26. Police departments give their officers personality tests to
make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their
total opposite.
27. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to
speak to each other in English.

Supplied by Mick!

The following are the winners of the Washington Post's contest to find
titles for "Children's Books You'll Never See..."